🔎 guess the number

"guess the number" game in various programming languages

program picks a random number between 1 and 100, and asks user to guess it.
for each guess, program gives feedback on the number entered by user, whether it is smaller, larger or equal.

🎯 sample run

guess a number between 1 and 100
> 50
too low!
> 75
too high!
> 67
too low!
> 73
too high!
> 70
that's right!

💡 trick

any random number between 1 to 100 can be guessed in maximum of 7 turns by applying binary search logic.

📚 references

• learn lua by writing a "guess the number" game by seth kenlon on opensource.com
• learn bash by writing an interactive game by jim hall on opensource.com
• practice coding in groovy by writing a game by chris hermansen on opensource.com